Harold Raymond

At the time she began the novel, RL admitted that she had very little knowledge of contemporary women's writing other than May Sinclair 's. She dedicated this work to Dadie Rylands , who had advised...

EH 's family background and her career in journalism brought her a large acquaintance. She built warm relationships with some who were professionally involved in that career, like Harold Raymond (with his wife, Vera )...

She worked at this book during 1947, disturbed at the news that the US journalist Negley Farson was planning a rival book on the same subject. (When his Last Chance in Africa appeared in 1949...

She began this book by April 1955, but her writing was interrupted when her mother arrived from Kenya to spend three months in England. She submitted the draft to Chatto on 7 March 1956...

Also during the 1960s, her immense productivity led her into difficulties over tax (partly because of the taxing, at that date, of married couples as a single unit). In 1965-6 her tax demand was £1,800...

For this novel she changed her publisher to Collins , who had made her a generous offer a couple of years before. She set out not to hurt the feelings of Harold Raymond of Chatto and Windus